Posted on 09/26/2017 1:42:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BERN, Switzerland — North Korean government officials have been quietly trying to arrange talks with Republican-linked analysts in Washington, in an apparent attempt to make sense of President Donald Trump and his confusing messages to Kim Jong Un’s regime.
The outreach began before the current eruption of threats between the two leaders, but will likely become only more urgent as Trump and Kim have descended into name-calling that, many analysts worry, sharply increases the chances of potentially catastrophic misunderstandings.
“Their No. 1 concern is Trump. They can’t figure him out,” said one person with direct knowledge of North Korea’s approach to Asia experts with Republican connections.
There is no suggestion that the North Koreans are interested in negotiations about their nuclear program — they instead seem to want forums for insisting on being recognized as a nuclear state — and the Trump administration has made clear it is not interested in talking right now.
At a multilateral meeting here in Switzerland earlier this month, North Korea’s representatives were adamant about being recognized as a nuclear weapons state and showed no willingness to even talk about denuclearization.
But to get a better understanding of American intentions, in the absence official diplomatic talks with the U.S. government, North Korea’s mission to the United Nations invited Bruce Klingner, a former CIA analyst who is now the Heritage Foundation’s top expert on North Korea, to visit Pyongyang for meetings.....
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“There is no suggestion that the North Koreans are interested in negotiations about their nuclear program — they instead seem to want forums for insisting on being recognized as a nuclear state — and the Trump administration has made clear it is not interested in talking right now. “
So why should we bother talking with them?
Trump already warned them. They should take that seriously.
The parallels to Clancy’s “Executivr XDecisions” keep coming. Maybe with Trump like Jack Ryan there is nothing to figure out. Stop analyzing him as a politician.
I think this makes us safer
Let them worry about him
They are pretty damn clueless if they don’t already see what is coming.
They can’t figure him out because he isn’t a scumbag politician, which is all (for the most part) they have experience with.
So why should we bother talking with them?
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We talked and talked to them for decades. Accomplished nothing for us. Time for talk is over.
Hey Rocket Man
Drop Dead!!!
D Trump
Duck and cover under your desks!
No desk?
Sucks to be you.
Maybe you should have tied your boat to a sane leader.
Just my opinion
Winning.
Funny. Most Republican “analysts” can’t figure him out either.
They should find a sympathetic ear in John McCain.
Reagan kept the enemy guessing too. They knew they couldn’t predict him, which was to his advantage.
Gee they are confused by Trump because he hasn’t paid them off?
“What’s up with Trump?”
...he’s going to kick your @ss rocket man.
Translation. “Usually after a few threats and missile launches the U.S. President cuts us a check to make us stop. Why no check? Why is Trump different?”
Of course they can’t figure Trump out. He’s a New Yorker who isn’t afraid to speak his mind. He’s also a man w/principle and he truly loves America. Kim got too used to obama who has no principles, hates America, and believes we are too powerful a nation. Remember the iran deal?
What’s up with Trump? Unlike the 4 presidents before him, Trump’s not going to give N Korea a red cent, that’s what’s up. Not after the way Otis was treated. And the sooner Lil Kim figures daddygoldbucksUSA just cut off the charge card, the sooner we can get down to the brass tacks.
Hey Kim take a knee like the rest of the educated idiots that can’t figure out what’s what.
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